“Diligence is the mother of good luck.”
Benjamin Franklin (verified)
“That is just it, work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
— Marie Curie (verified, secondary source)“The eye of a master, will do more work than his hand.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“The way to win is to work, work, work, work and hope to have a few insights. And you’re probably not going to be smart enough to find thousands in a lifetime. And when you get a few, you really load up. It’s just that simple.”
— Charlie Munger (verified)“At the working man’s house hunger looks in but dares not enter.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Be always ashamed to catch thyself idle.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“If a man has failed, you will find he has dreamed instead of working. There is no way to success in our art, but to take off your coat, grind paint, and work like a digger on the railroad, all day and every day.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (verified)“Work could cure almost anything.”
— Ernest Hemingway (verified)“But I have found out that though the ways in which I can make myself useful are few, yet the work open to me is endless.”
— Helen Keller (verified)“Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (unverified)“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Edison (unverified)